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Proteroglypha :: Proteroglypha (n. pl.) A suborder of serpents including those that have permanently erect grooved poison fangs, with ordinary teeth behind them in the jaws. It includes the cobras, the asps, and the sea snakes. Called also Proteroglyphia..

Pulley :: Pulley (v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain..

Ophiuroidea :: Ophiuroidea (n. pl.) A class of star-shaped echinoderms having a disklike body, with slender, articulated arms, which are not grooved beneath and are often very fragile; -- called also Ophiuroida and Ophiuridea. See Illust. under Brittle star..

Rifle :: Rifle (n.) A gun, the inside of whose barrel is grooved with spiral channels, thus giving the ball a rotary motion and insuring greater accuracy of fire. As a military firearm it has superseded the musket..

Staff :: Staff (n.) The grooved director for the gorget, or knife, used in cutting for stone in the bladder..

Telodynamic :: Telodynamic (a.) Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.

Opisthoglypha :: Opisthoglypha (n. pl.) A division of serpents which have some of the posterior maxillary teeth grooved for fangs.

Swage :: Swage (n.) A tool, variously shaped or grooved on the end or face, used by blacksmiths and other workers in metals, for shaping their work, whether sheet metal or forging, by holding the swage upon the work, or the work upon the swage, and striking with a sledge..

Conductor :: Conductor (n.) A grooved sound or staff used for directing instruments, as lithontriptic forceps, etc.; a director..

Mandrill :: Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red..

Roller :: Roller (n.) One who, or that which, rolls; especially, a cylinder, sometimes grooved, of wood, stone, metal, etc., used in husbandry and the arts..

Moulding :: Moulding (n.) Anything cast in a mold, or which appears to be so, as grooved or ornamental bars of wood or metal..

Grooved :: Grooved (imp. & p. p.) of Groov.

Drove :: Drove (n.) The grooved surface of stone finished by the drove chisel; -- called also drove work.

Gully :: Gully (n.) A grooved iron rail or tram plate.

Director :: Director (n.) A slender grooved instrument upon which a knife is made to slide when it is wished to limit the extent of motion of the latter, or prevent its injuring the parts beneath..

Gorget :: Gorget (n.) A grooved instrunent used in performing various operations; -- called also blunt gorget.

Wire :: Wire (n.) A thread or slender rod of metal; a metallic substance formed to an even thread by being passed between grooved rollers, or drawn through holes in a plate of steel..

Trisulcate :: Trisulcate (a.) Having three furrows, forks, or prongs; having three grooves or sulci; three-grooved..

Sulcation :: Sulcated (a.) Scored with deep and regular furrows; furrowed or grooved; as, a sulcated stem..

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